A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code. Stephen Shankland worked ...

May 22, 2006—Among the biggest news stories at this week’s JavaOne conference was Sun Microsystems’ long-awaited announcement that it will be releasing the industry-standard Java programming language ...

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Sun’s executive vice president of software, Richard Green, reiterated the company’s intentions to open source Java at the JavaOne conference yesterday in San Francisco. Green claims that, although the ...

Linux developer Red Hat is aligning with Sun Microsystems on open-source Java development, announcing Monday that it has signed Sun's OpenJDK license agreement and will contribute to the open Java ...

Ten years on, Java founder James Gosling sees upside in the open source move, while others believe Sun didn't go far enough Ten years later, the open-sourcing of Java remains a point of contention, ...

IBM has begun participating in open-source Java project Harmony and intends to contribute code to the initiative, according to a Big Blue executive. In the past week, IBM has dedicated an employee to ...

Fortify Software and theFindBugs Java error detection project this week unveileda collaborative effort aimed at zapping the bugs of open source softwarecode written ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will open-source Java--it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said Tuesday. Open-source advocates have urged Sun for years to open-source the Java ...